The Perfume Pagoda is a 2hr drive, and 1hr long row down the Yen Vi River, and a 4 kilometer hike up a mountain. Teale and I were exhausted by the time we got to the top of the stairs to the entrance of the cable car which helped us bypass the 5km hike! Ha! We also took the cable car down.

What can I say, we didn't feel like sweating that much. The (Huong) Perfume Pagoda is actually several pagodas but we only went to one temple and visited the coolest part of the tour which is the Huong Thich Grotto, a cave where two monks reside.